Discretionary in A Sentence

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    A budget also estimates spending for groceries, clothing, gifts, entertainment, and other variable discretionary expenses.

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    A number of private client stockbrokers also hold our shares on behalf of discretionary clients.

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    After that, it's time to examine discretionary spending such as home décor, entertainment, and gifts.

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    After you've looked over your major expenses, it's time to search for frugal living websites offering ways to trim your discretionary costs.

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    An increase in funding of discretionary grants to reduce the number of unfit private sector dwellings.

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    Any discretionary increments or regrading applied to the new grade will be offset against the protected pay.

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    As more benefits then become means tested and discretionary, the universality principle becomes eroded.

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    Both fixed and discretionary trusts may be settled in Hong Kong.

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    Deciding on wants vs. needs can be emotional, but if you look at everything logically, you'll find ways to save on discretionary spending.

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    Dividend payments on the preference shares are fully discretionary.

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    Dividends on preferred stock are also discretionary unless fixed in the Certificate of Incorporation.

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    Entertainment is one of the largest categories of discretionary spending in most households, but families living on one income must watch their spending in this area.

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    Everyone has to eat ­ it is not discretionary!

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    Food is one of the largest discretionary expenses in a family's budget.

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    Food is one of the largest discretionary spending categories in most household budgets.

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    For discretionary expenses, you'll need to come up with an estimate based on your past spending patterns.

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    For example, if you budget for $50 a month as discretionary income, such as for take-out coffee or a magazine, keep a slip of paper in your wallet detailing how you spent that money during the month.

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    For obvious reasons, all these grants have eligibility criteria, in addition to which they are entirely discretionary.

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    However, when it comes to discretionary items like makeup, the task becomes that much easier.

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    I do not know how anyone can make that comment and then go on to say that a wholly discretionary code is better.

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    In 1880 a provisional Bill was submitted to parliament giving the crown discretionary power not to enforce the laws.

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    In local government, the position is complicated by the fact that entitlement to added years is only discretionary.

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    In some sense the king's writ of significavit was discretionary; but its issue could be enforced by excommunication or interdict.

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    In the event that a customer owes Portland any monies, any SLA offered by Portland Communications Ltd becomes discretionary.

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    Individuals who carefully track their spending and plan detailed budgets may not have much discretionary money available to spend on gifts or cards for every occasion.

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    It is conceivable that a pope of Boniface VIII.'s temperament would not submit kindly to any restriction of the discretionary power with which he was invested by tradition, and he endeavoured to make the cardinals dependent on him and even to dispense with their services as far as possible, only assembling them in consistory in cases of extreme necessity.

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    Let your family budget determine your discretionary income (money left over after the basic living expenses) before you decide to take on more debt.

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    Local authority grants - discretionary awards Local authorities distribute booklets detailing award policies.

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    Money is always a welcomed gift in a young person’s life, especially when they’re about to embark on a new chapter and may need a boost in discretionary income.

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    Natural Law, he claims, leaves room for discretionary arrangements like episcopacy; Scripture does not mean to supersede the light of reason.

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    Not Even Appear That The Length Of The Intercalary Month Was Regulated By Any Certain Principle, For A Discretionary Power Was Left With The Pontiffs, To Whom The Care Of The Calendar Was Committed, To Intercalate More Or Fewer Days According As The Year Was Found To Differ More Or Less From The Celestial Motions.

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    Offering £ 25k basic, company car, mobile and laptop with a discretionary end of year company related bonus.

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    Since food accounts for a large portion of a family's discretionary spending each month, this is often the first area in which people look to cut costs.

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    Some families may only have $25 per person left over per week after expenses are taken care of, while others may have $100 per week or more to use for discretionary spending.

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    Subject to his control the government of India enjoys a certain discretionary Finance.

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    Taking time to fill out applications and making an effort to get more money for college can dramatically reduce the amount you'll pay in loans later and may even leave you with a greater amount of discretionary spending money.

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    The court which can award a sentence is said to possess as of common right a discretionary power of granting a reprieve.

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    The family grocery budget is often the area with the most discretionary spending options.

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    The K-factor only affects the SCR, and so relates only to the impact of discretionary profit sharing in the stress scenarios.

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    The President 's discretionary foreign policy powers to establish different standards for NGOs and foreign governments were thereby upheld.

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    The president of each house has the discretionary power of appointing additional laymen, not exceeding ten in number.

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    The rubrics of the Scottish portion of the book are somewhat stricter, and, indeed, one or two of the Geneva rubrics were made more absolute in the Scottish emendations; but no doubt the ` Book of Common Order' is best described as a discretionary liturgy."

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    The stages of the process (marked by the Valerio-Horatian laws of 449 B.C., the Publilian law of 339 B.C., and the Hortensian law of 287 B.C.) are unknown; but it is probable that the two first of the laws progressively weakened the discretionary power of senate and consuls in admitting such petitions; and that the Hortensian law fully recognized the right of resolutions of the plebs (plebiscita) to bind the whole community.

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    These discretionary grants are offered to help businesses carry out research or development work that will lead to technologically innovative products or processes.

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    These include contributions made up of matching funds, mandatory contributions by the employer, and discretionary contributions.

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    To get a grip on discretionary spending, consider giving your children a weekly allowance for this purpose.

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    Under the Public Worship Regulation Act of 1874, which gave to churchwardens and aggrieved parishioners the right to institute proceedings against the clergy for breaches of the law in the conduct of divine service, a discretionary right was reserved to the bishop to stay proceedings.

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    Unfortunately, babies aren't very discretionary about what they choose to place in their mouths.

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    Whether or not meditation is included is discretionary; virtually all Kripalu classes include asanas and pranayama.